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| c. 1720 |
| | | Canaletto begins to specialize in views of the Venetian canals, finding his main customers among the British | |
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| 1721 |
| | | Jean-Antoine Watteau paints the most splendid shop sign in history, for his friend Gersaint | |
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| 1751 |
| | | Giovanni Battista Tiepolo begins a series of frescoes to decorate the prince bishop's residence in Würzburg | |
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| 1751 |
| | | French painter Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin returns to the subject matter that first took his interest, still life | |
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| 1752 |
| | | French painter Jean-Honoré Fragonard wins the cherished Prix de Rome at the age of 20 | |
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| c. 1754 |
| | | Francesco Guardi, previously a painter of figures, begins to specialize in view of Venice, his native city | |
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| 1755 |
| | | Johann Joachim Winckelmann publishes a book on Greek painting and sculpture which introduces a new strand of neoclassicism | |
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| 1757 |
| | | English painter Joseph Wright sets up a studio in his home town, Derby | |
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| c. 1758 |
| | | Joshua Reynolds, by now the most fashionable portrait painter in London, copes with as many as 150 sitters in a year | |
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| 1758 |
| | | Liverpool-born artist George Stubbs sets up in London as a painter, above all, of people and horses | |
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